Almost every bomber that flew missions for the united states over europe and japan during the second world war had a nortern bomb sight on board. The army bought thousands of them before every mission. Nordon would sometimes leave manhattan and return to his mother's house in zurich while he was still perfecting his invention. In addition, nordon even created an algaritm that compensated for the fact that when drop a bomb and it takes 30 seconds to hit the target, during those 30 seconds the earth actually moves.

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